October of 2003

October of 2003

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Rubella infects hundreds in Trongsa

Health Disease

Oct 10, 2003 2 mins read 584 views

A genetic survey of Bhutan

Ethnic Groups

Oct 17, 2003 2 mins read 602 views

Fuel cheaper

Bhutan Oil Distributor (BOD)

Oct 24, 2003 0 mins read 641 views

Two litres of pus drained from abdomen

Health Disease

Oct 17, 2003 1 mins read 592 views

A learning experience

Sport

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 542 views

Rice cakes and Roshomon

Festival (A-Z)

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 712 views

DYT shuts down Mongar pool rooms

Dzongkhags

Oct 31, 2003 3 mins read 627 views

Druk Air to fly to Gaya from November

Druk Air

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 555 views

Clean development mechanism project to build mini hydel station in Chendebji

Hydro Project

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 609 views

RAA elected to ASOSAI governing board

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 574 views

Bear set free

Forest Poaching

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 512 views

Norwegian couple donates cardiography machine

Health-Hospital/JDWNRH

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 556 views

Laya : not quite a hidden land

Ethnic Groups

Oct 31, 2003 6 mins read 595 views

Getting ready for the dry season

Forest Fire

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 616 views

JICA donates equipment to Bhutan Telecom

Bhutan- Japan

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 584 views

NEC to update environmental clearance guidelines

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 560 views

Golf : a wet competition

Sport

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 488 views

Ambassadors appointed

Foreign Affairs

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 630 views

Textile exhibition: podium for rural weavers

Exhibition

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 559 views

Bhutan is ready for the future

Handicraft

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 640 views

Fashion show captivates audience

Fashion Show

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 558 views

Should happiness be measured ?

Kuensel

Oct 31, 2003 3 mins read 571 views

Why the blinkers ?

Kuensel

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 571 views

Music : getting monotonous ?

Kuensel

Oct 31, 2003 1 mins read 503 views

Evolving to survive

Editorial

Oct 31, 2003 3 mins read 583 views

Getaway bike traced

Crime

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 553 views

New RCSC holds first meeting

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 545 views

Rain damages harvested paddy

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 581 views

Historic Tshechu established

Tshechu

Oct 31, 2003 2 mins read 510 views

Outstanding advances, or irregularities ?

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Oct 31, 2003 3 mins read 550 views

Prime minister opens IMTRAT Mela

DANTAK/IMTRAT/BRTF

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 535 views

Bhutan observes UN day

International Day

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 0 views

Plant intoxication common in eastern dzongkhags

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Oct 24, 2003 3 mins read 554 views

Developing a Bhutanese sign language

Disabled

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 553 views

Excitement and confusion over cellular service

Telecommunication Department

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 522 views

Paro : safe water and secure from water

Water Supply Scheme

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 602 views

Nu 64 million for rural development-training centre

Bhutan - Netherlands

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 562 views

German support for preservation of Lingshi Dzong

Bhutan - Germany

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 493 views

Mass sterilisation to stabilise dog population

City Corporation

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 545 views

Tencheykha : a deserted village

Ethnic Groups

Oct 24, 2003 3 mins read 506 views

ICRC delegation in Bhutan

International Committee Of Red Cross (ICRC)

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 549 views

National textile festival

Festival (A-Z)

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 579 views

Lugar theatre to be demolished

Feature Film

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 581 views

Parking in Phuentsholing

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 501 views

Committed to quality construction

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 2003 4 mins read 473 views

Lost and found

Editorial

Oct 24, 2003 1 mins read 611 views

Accountability

Editorial

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 688 views

MJC moves from talks to action

Bhutan - Nepal Refugee Issue

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 558 views

Bridges of friendship

Bridges

Oct 24, 2003 2 mins read 550 views

MTI : most irregularities

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Oct 24, 2003 4 mins read 581 views

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Hip-hop’s rise fuels debate over lyrics and cultural influence

Once confined to niche audiences, Bhutanese rap has moved steadily into the mainstream, gaining a foothold on playlists and social media feeds across the country. But its growing popularity and increasingly explicit themes are fuelling a wider debate over cultural values, youth influence, and the limits of artistic freedom.

Apr 29, 2026 4 mins read 7,649 views

Hip-hop’s rise fuels debate over lyrics and cultural influence

Amochu transforms from flood zone to investment hub

From a dangerous flood zone to a booming investment hub, Phuentsholing’s Amochu area is witnessing a construction explos...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,402 views

Govt. shelves 50-bed Thimphu Hospital, proposes super -speciality facility

Is a state-of-the-art “super-speciality” facility worth the wait, or did Thimphu just lose a vital community hospital? T...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 3,453 views

Film industry grapples with rising piracy and weak copyright enforcement

Bhutanese filmmakers are fighting a losing battle against cinema-goers recording full films on their phones, while curre...

Apr 29, 2026 4 mins read 3,234 views

Wangdue Court sentences man to 11 years for raping minor

The Wangdue Dzongkhag Court has sentenced a 51-year-old man to 11 years for raping a minor and ordered the Ministry of E...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 8,173 views

Unseen effort behind Mid-Term Review meetings

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 3,424 views

National OHS audit identifies risks, calls for stronger enforcement and worker training

Apr 29, 2026 3 mins read 2,914 views

Pay gaps trigger job-hopping, deepen talent strain

Why stay loyal when your peer in another sector earns more for the same work?. Clean wage system was supposed to fix thi...

Apr 25, 2026 6 mins read 7,798 views

Teachers struggle with distant postings and divided families

Phuentsholing—A teacher posted in Trongsa meets his family only when rare timetable adjustments allow him to travel. For...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 10,275 views

GMC brings hope to Dadgari

Land prices just across the border have skyrocketed from Nu 100,000 to Nu 500,000 per acre almost overnight. The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has already started benefiting the neighbouring town.

Apr 25, 2026 3 mins read 10,143 views

A Café that kept it Simple

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 6,708 views

A Café that kept it Simple

When stillness stirs a nation

Feb 16, 2026 4 mins read 3,127 views

Talent in transit: Bhutan’s choice between remittances and reform

Feb 02, 2026 4 mins read 5,486 views

Ask Mr Bhutan

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 4,507 views

Between Homes: Voices of Bhutanese living between home and elsewhere

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 8,246 views

GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 6,774 views

GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Making GST work past early hiccups

The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are par...

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 6,896 views

The cost of delay

Jan 07, 2026 2 mins read 8,456 views

A new chapter for Kuensel

Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...

Jan 03, 2026 2 mins read 7,142 views

Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 8,058 views

News

Poultry mismanagement fuels egg crisis, MoAL must stabilise supply chains immediately

12 May, 2026 3 mins read 533 views

The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary pressures and rising demand.

News

Parliament session to deliberate budget and critical national Bills

11 May, 2026 2 mins read 1,434 views

The Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 2026, during which lawmakers will deliberate on key national budgets, major Bills, international agreements, and action taken reports on past resolutions.

Life Style

A memoir of hustle and heartache

11 May, 2026 3 mins read 679 views

Life Style

From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

11 May, 2026 4 mins read 521 views

Editorial

ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

11 May, 2026 6 mins read 336 views

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

News

GMCA invites bids to redesign Gelephu Old Town

09 May, 2026 2 mins read 3,280 views

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